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Show SIX ACRES W FLAMES Conflagration Sweeps Town of Truckee, California. BIG BOX FACTORY BURNS Blaze Rose to a Height of Two Hundred Hun-dred Feet and Was Seen at ClaiVs Station. Nevada, Ninety Miles Away A Dozen Times the Town Seemed Doomed, but the Fact That No Wind Was Blowing Sived It From Destruction Total Losj Is 200.000. TH! CKEC CM Mav 12 -Six acr In th central part nf TrurV waa a raging mana of flames for .wen- or elht hour Sunday morning Th ni box factory nni plnlnlns mill of the Trmken Lumber compan), around which ih town wis orlglnall built waa totally tstro.H With It went the office with eer thins It contained and a number of warehouses and i!rhiR noun en rillel with boxes oned luinbtr irlan windows doors and building material una million feet nf lumber piled on both aides of the rler waa also (laatroted The tire proband originated from a de fertrve electric wlrr lit tho exact chufo will never be known Th powdered dust u rising from the w o I working machines which coated the lntrior of ihe old bull W Ins exploded wltn the first contact of names; The entire bull llngr waa blatlntr bifore Ihe alarm fojn le Kten A tr t of cars partl loitfle I with .oxes standing In front of the building nnl tho ofn e situated 10U feet dlstnnt wern olmot in MitntU on fire tokftivr with stores of towering lumber pi s It was the close! v i Med lumber and the compact bundles of tox material which caused th Are to list s many hours ln cVed a number of the larger riles of lumber hat blazed lu r rlv ill diy and are llghtlnir th" town tnnlpht Thero was not a brc ith of wind ant although man houses were srorched on the main stret anl erat caught fire no lessen occurred ex ej r to the lumber com pnn Moro than 1 iioo ftet of lumter was a?d although m my nf tho plies destroyed de-stroyed wern but a few feet distant Tho flame roan ertl ally to a helcht of 2(.t fret and were nan at flirk s Station Sta-tion cv ntnet mile dlstnnt A dozen times tho town aeemel do me 1 but thero was nn abundance f water and tho men fouifht aa onljttvsp can who ficht tor their homes rhe 1 la $3nnUift Insur-rnco Insur-rnco wai 13,000 T morrow morning tho company will cntnm mo rebullllnfr |
